The LIMINAL Series
Li / min/ al : a transitional or initial stage of a process.
This series aims to support artists in the in between; the space between idea and result. So much of traditional art making and production is at the mercy of strict timelines, financial ‘bottom’ lines and programming beholden to tickets sales. By liberating this process from those exclusionary parameters we are producing art in a more equitable and accessible way; we are reinventing how, who and what gets created, produced and witnessed in our communities and we are bringing important, transformative stories to life in The LIMINAL Series.
IN THE STUDIO
Grinding Coffee Beans
Created and Performed By Asteria Howard
Directed & Dramaturged By Katherine Murphy Lewis
Grinding Coffee Beans asks the universal question, how do I get from my bed to my coffee maker without spiraling into despair? A visceral multimedia movement based project that investigates the tumultuous path. Connecting the pink wash of the morning sun to all the pain we carry, Asteria guides audiences through ebbs and flows, taking us from loss to transformation, from slumber to vitality, from defeat to breath. Discover what it means to run back into the arms of oneself in this raw, sensual, and soulful journey that we are all on as humans.
Coming March 28th/29th 2025
The End
Created and Performed By Katherine Murphy Lewis
Directed by Lauren Wilson
‘…2 to 7 months…2 to 7months….. 2…..to…..7 months… those dates, those numbers, so small, so short, rang and clanged about inside me, time no longer my friend.
I hit record and subtly placed my phone on the table. I am struck by how normal it all sounds. I want to capture us, our conversations, his cadence, the rhythm that is my mother and him and me, a little nation of three, still intact despite his illness and the impending end of all things. I try keep that place, that moment in a jar like a firefly, untouched by time.…hit record, quietly place phone on table, capture something, something that cant be lost… capture him before he goes… capture us before we are all gone…’
This emerging work threads the death of Katherines father to a world at ‘the end of times’, from Wallmart to the White House Katherine asks, out loud ‘Should I get a 401K or lean wilderness survival skills?
All this and more as Katherine attempts to not so gracefully make peace herself and the world.
COMING FALL 2025